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London, Hong Kong and somehow California*.
Often a Contrarian.
The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.
Interest: JPEG-XL, AAC-LC, VVC / LCEVC, Patent Free AVC, FreeBSD, TigerBeetle, ZFS, DTrace, Vitess, Vespa, Objective-C, Java, Zig, Odin, Crystal, Ada, Ruby, Rails, 5G/6G, OpenPOWER, Apple/China, Supply Chain / Manufacturing, Retail.
@Google: Why No Pixel Phone in Hong Kong?
Because that is not normal and shouldn't happen either. And I dont understand why this is used as an example.
I dont expect normal people to have to sell their stock. Nor do I believe in tax on asset for anyone. Capital Gain Tax should just be Income tax.
In reality majority of billionaires are in industries and companies that does not even remotely have the same benefits or power.
Switching to OLED in 2016 makes zero sense when brightness and burn in issues are not solved.
Not sure I can say the same for UK.
Does it still clog up? There are many be one or two more refillable ink printers but are they good? Has printing quality improved?
Or are they still a bag of hurt we should all just hope for better and cheaper colour laser / LED printer.
>If you have suggestions on how to name our products better......
Too late for that. I hope you guys can at least stick to these naming scheme for at least another 2-3 years going forward. Not everyone follows AI / LLM intensely, and it seems there is a new naming changes every year or so.
At least conceptually OpenAI's naming is easier to understand than Claude.
It terms of capability, it would be great to make it clear somewhere that this is 6.1 Model "+" technical communication, vision and computer use improvements. So that at least we know what we should try with these new release and choose a better model for certain workload.
Right now, other than pricing, it is confusing as hell. And in hindsight I wonder if there are fatigue in choosing one people just go with Open Model and stick with it if it is good enough.
I believe this is the lightest iPad at only 255g. I just wonder how much more weight can they shave off.
And if they are going to kill the iPad? The current iPad line up is split into Pro, Air, (iPad) and Mini. Surely the mini could replace the normal iPad?
If it is not, how would all these appliance with memory doubt with bad memory?
And that is why Apple is only shipping theirs now, it is getter better and finally have a decent trajectory in the next 3-5 years to overcome most of those issues. I mean you can pretty much look at State of the Art from Chinese Android phones to see where we are heading in terms of hardware. They are now to the point USB-C port is the limit of how thin they could make their phone.
Do you know if Goose is the first time something like this has been done?
For Apple, and specific to Apple, when they fired Scott Forstall, there is no one to protect the software UI guys. The 2012 reshuffle in the name of "collaboration" by Tim Cook saw Design team taking over everything design, including Software. 2013 saw iOS 7 and then they spend 3 years to walk back a lot of iOS 7 UI changes. In 2016 many of their old UI leads "retired". Having no old guards to defend their turf, giving Alan Dye more rooms for power grab.
Since then, if not earlier, despite the whole UI becoming more android and cluster mess, there have been little to zero major UI changes other than new skin.
And like Apple's software, that is 10 years of resume driven development where they just want to ship features after features.
I don't think that is a fair assessment. Java / JVM has been steadily progressing in the past 10 - 15 years. From languages to different part of JVM. It is only getting the sense development being picked up because HN and other social media are finally getting the clicks and interest again. The pendulum swing back because of all of different reasons.
And in reality a lot of these recent landed improvement were 5 - 10 years in the making.
I still don't like its syntax though. But I am not even sure if it is even an issue in AI driven development era.
They plan to increase 50% for Wind and Solar in 5 years, and possibly double in 10 years. Since 80%+ of all future planned Nuclear reactor are also in China, they would have more than double their renewable energy in 10 years. China is the number one in electricity production and usage, more than twice the size of US and 33%+ of the world. Given the size of China this is both exciting and scary.
You perfectly summarise how I felt as well. The revisionist also tries to paint the story as JPEG XL was first banned due to security issues which is again not true.
But that is OK. Since JPEG XL has finally and rightfully won its place, mostly thanks for Safari. We can now hopefully wait for better encoder.